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antiquate

[an-ti-kwayt] / ˈæn tɪˌkweɪt /


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The state made its own luck by allowing its ferry fleet to antiquate and amass $270 million in deferred maintenance.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2024

His first move in office was to antiquate newspaper files throughout the world by shaving his mustache and buying a new hat: a stiff, eminently correct black Homburg.

From Time Magazine Archive

It calls for payment of $8,000,000,000 from the U. S. Treasury to build $500,000-a-mile, crow-flight highways which would antiquate for express travel most existing routes.

From Time Magazine Archive

A little peaceful study and development of submarines and aircraft will antiquate our present antidotes.

From Another Sheaf by John Galsworthy

Whilst these were under discussion, new matter of complaint came over, which seemed to antiquate the first.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

The government has introduced a bill to end antiquated laws preventing Roman Catholic or Jewish prime ministers from being involved in the process of making Church of England appointments.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

Despite their hardships, they refused to compromise or mold themselves into someone else’s narrow, antiquated vision.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

Warsh strongly hinted the Fed would do the same, rather than rely primarily on incomplete or outdated government data collected through antiquated methods.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

So what’s the catalyst for his noteworthy preoccupation with masculinity and all these archetypal characters who embody its antiquated themes?

From Salon ● May 27, 2026

The Group Headquarters building was an enormous, windy, antiquated structure built of powdery red stone and banging plumbing.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

One would represent me as attempting to undermine our native tongue; another, as modernizing; a third, as antiquating it.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 by Various

Of Chatterton's method of antiquating something has already been said.

From The Rowley Poems by Thomas Chatterton


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